by KimBoo York | Jan 5, 2014 | Life and all That
While my apartment is cramped by the remnants of my “inheritance” there is in fact very little left of the things my parents owned. I have bits and bobs — small percentages of what used to fill whole rooms. One of those collections is the vinyl...
by KimBoo York | Dec 26, 2013 | Life and all That, Ponderings
Recently on tumblr I stumbled over an art project by James Marquis called “Under the Wires”, photographs taken of places underneath the towering power line cables that criss-cross the country. Images like this are striking: But what struck me, what STOPPED...
by KimBoo York | Nov 17, 2013 | Life and all That
For the past two months I have been beaten down in an epic battle with, in Steve Pressfield’s terms, Resistance. If you are familiar with his excellent books The War of Art or Do the Work then you know what I’m talking about: that unrelenting push-back...
by KimBoo York | Sep 23, 2013 | Fiction, Life and all That
This weekend I spent a lot of time sitting around staring at blank paper. It was a good thing, though. I’ve been writing a lot over the past nine months about goals, dreams, plans, and aspirations. I’ve talked about focusing on what I want while also...
by KimBoo York | Sep 20, 2013 | Life and all That
I’m feeling unlovely, unintelligent, and unfocused. Like a ship wandering around a sea with no map or guides or even purpose to it, ungainly in the water and suffering the sloppy waves that threaten to tip me over. It’s time for me to take a...
by KimBoo York | Aug 26, 2013 | Life and all That
When someone says something unpleasant to another person and then justifies it with “Sometimes the truth hurts!” then I know for a fact that the person who is making the comment is completely uninterested in actually helping the person they claim they are...
